Recommended Scented Roses

Hand-picked by our rose experts, this collection of roses are some of our favourite highly scented roses. Chosen not only for their beautiful scent, but also for their health, reliability and overall beauty, these roses are sure to delight the senses.

(Modern Climber) A sumptuous and most attractive rose comprising of 60 or more rose-pink petals with a deeper reverse and shadings of magenta. Strongly fragrant with healthy, dark, leathery foliage. Has an upright habit and seldom not in flower throughout the summer A useful pillar rose or wall plant. In all respects a first class rose.

(Floribunda) Shapely buds open to well-formed, semi-double flowers of rich deep yellow, fading to lemon with age, in large clusters, though occasionally singly. Foliage is mid to light green and glossy. Growth densely upright. Good for growing in pots and for cutting. Bred by McGredy.

(Portland) This rose is a perfect alternative to Gertrude Jekyll which we no longer stock. A vigorous, erect bush bearing very fragrant pinkish-lilac, full, flat flowers, borne continuously. Outstanding. Good foliage.

(Modern Climber) A beautiful apricot sport of the free flowering 'Aloha', bearing all its attributes, particularly that of scent. Like its parent it is very healthy with leathery, glossy foliage. Growing to around 10 feet tall this is an ideal pillar rose that will tolerate a shady position. This rose was named by Gordon Bonnyman for his wife in 1996. Bred by Beales

(Modern Shrub) This delightful little rose bears an abundance of heavily perfumed, classic hybrid tea style flowers which are produced continuously throughout the summer. The centers of the blooms are rich golden honey in colour, paling to creamy-yellow at the edges of the petals. Foliage is healthy, mid green and in abundance. This rose is ideal for potting and also good for cutting. Bred by Beales

Unique to us in the UK. (Modern Shrub) Old fashioned fully double flowers are intense copper orange and highly scented. The plant is upright in growth with bronze green foliage. Bred and named by John Clements of Heirloom Roses, Oregon, USA for Heirloom Roses, Oregon, USA for his wife.

(Damask) One of the outstanding old garden roses, elegant in growth and sumptuous in bloom, being very double and well formed with incurved centres, of almost pure white around a green button eye. Very fragrant.